Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Humorous - Black Humor

A rising star at one of the world's preeminent investment banks recounts his power hungry and sex-crazed youth in this outrageous, satirical bildungsroman. From childhood dreams of playing in the NFL to a career on Wall Street playing with middle class pensions--and the schoolyard brawls, love triangles, rock club showcases, and frat house feuds in between--Frank Parker will do whatever it takes to stay on top, however desperate. In Alpha, A.D. Aliwat offers a mesmerizing look inside the mind of a predator as pitiable as he is terrifying and a critical examination of what it...

*A hypothetical episode of Batman hilariously slowed down to soap-opera speed.

*A Game of baseball as played by T.S. Eliot and Willem "Big Bull" de Kooning.

*A recipe for feeding sixty pork-sotted celebrants at your daughter's wedding.

*An outlandishly illustrated account of a scientific quest for God.

These astonishing tropes of the imagination could only have been generated by Donald Barthelme, who--until his death in 1989--seemed intent on goosing American letters...

Told with wry black humor and bent irony and weirdly oddball hope, The Messes We Make of Our Lives explores the ways its characters face absurd snags--blunders, problems, messes--and the often complicated ways they exhibit resiliency and wisdom in overcoming and moving on--and living.

When Zerbe, the honorary brother (and roommate) of LA's toughest bodyguard/bouncer, Crush, is kidnapped, Crush springs into action to save him. Unraveling the mystery takes him to Zerbe's estranged billionaire father, who's obsessed with building California's long-promised bullet train, as well as to Pasadena's famed Rose Parade along Colorado Boulevard. This third installment in the Crush series (both of which were Kirkus Best Mysteries of the Year) is full of action, humor, and mystery.

Phoef Sutton is a New York Times bestselling novelist,...

From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story" --The New York Times Book Review), thirteen unforgettable tales that showcase his electrifying artistry.
Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the violence of suicide and despair, the gulfs between friends and lovers, the complexities of divorce and infidelity, the fragility and impermanence of love. Wherever he casts his gaze,...